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100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics. | |||
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Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts — Flash animations illustrating basic earthquake terms and concepts. | |||
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Animations of Seismology Fundamentals — animations illustrating the fundamentals of earthquakes and seismology | |||
| Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) |
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Big Rocks, Little Rocks (PDF) — use cookies to demonstrate erosion and its effects | |||
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Big Squeeze, The (PDF) — use crayon shavings to show how rocks are formed from other rocks, heat, and pressure | |||
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Bigger Faults Make Bigger EQ's — three different rope lengths are used to demonstrate how a fault ruptures in an EQ and why bigger faults make bigger EQ's | |||
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Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters — teachers guide to helping children deal with disasters | |||
| Univ of Illinois Extension |
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Coloring Pages to Print — Earthquake-related coloring pages to print out and color | |||
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Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts | |||
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Determining Danger (PDF) — identify potential hazards in your immediate environment and take action to increase safety | |||
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Earth Egg (PDF) — use eggs to represent the Earth plates, discussions about remote shearing, plate tectonics, and earth structure | |||
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Earth Science Course Notes & Graphics — Professor Steve Dutch's excellent online resources for earth sciences with great images for teaching; all the goodies are behind the "Notes" links | |||
| Univ. of Wisconsin |
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Earth Science Education Activities — a wealth of excellent hands-on activities for teaching about earthquakes, volcanoes, seismic waves, plate tectonics, earth structure, seismic waves, convection, seismometers and more! | |||
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Earth Sciences Lesson Plans — not really earthquakes, but great lesson plans for K-12 | |||
| NESEN - Lessons for Earth Systems Education |
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Earth's Interior Minerals — how can EQ's tell us what is inside the earth? | |||
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Earth's Layers, The — slide-show type presentation | |||
| Oregon State University |
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Earthquake ABC: A Child's View of Earthquake Facts and Feelings — by kids for kids, with a special section for parents and teachers | |||
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Earthquake Preparedness: What Every Childcare Provider Should Know — PDF file with tips for younger children | |||
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Earthquake Science Explained — A series of short articles for students, teachers, and parents originally published as weekly features in The San Francisco Chronicle. This USGS General Information Product presents some of the new understanding gained and scientific advances made in the century since the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. | |||
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Earthquake Statistics — Frequency of different magnitude earthquakes, number of earthquakes per year, etc. | |||
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Earthquakes: The Rolling Earth — slide-show type presentation | |||
| Oregon State University |
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EQ Fear (PDF) — make a list of common fears and address each one | |||
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EQ Kit Treasure Hunt (PDF) — hide EQ kit items around classroom or school and have a treasure hunt | |||
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EQ Plan (PDF) — discuss a plan for what to do if there is an EQ; especially good for schools in EQ-prone areas | |||
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EQs on the Surface (PDF) — use topo maps, seismicity maps, and fault maps to understand the connection between the surface features, locations of EQs and mapped faults | |||
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Essentials of Geology Animations — A collection of animations describing concepts of geology | |||
| W.W. Norton and Company |
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Fault Features (PDF) — a pan, dirt and some fabric create a model to demonstrate surface features of faults, use the Wallace Creek trail guide to see real fault features, or take a field trip | |||
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Forces of Nature — companion to the "Forces of Nature" IMAX movie about Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Hurricanes and Tornadoes; interactive learn plus lesson plans for the classroom | |||
| National Geographic |
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Garlock Fault Fly-Over — virtual fly-over of the Garlock fault | |||
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Geological Processes & Structures — animations of various types | |||
| Earth Science Australia |
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Geology Lesson Plans — includes all earth sciences | |||
| AskERIC |
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geologylink — geology in the news, links to resources, virtual field trips, virtual classroom | |||
| Houghton Mifflin Company College Division |
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GSA Free Teacher Resources — A good resource for educators that includes lesson plans, info on state standards, awards, and reading suggestions | |||
| Geological Society of America |
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How Plates Move — slide-show type presentation | |||
| Oregon State University |
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Human Wave (PDF) — learn about the motions of P & S waves with a fun participating exercise | |||
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Isoseismal Maps (PDF) — learn the difference between intensity and magnitude and gain experience with contouring on maps | |||
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Journey to the Center of the Earth — Created by 100 5th grade students | |||
| John F. Pattie Elementary |
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Jules Verne Voyager and Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. — an interactive map tool that enables students and scientists to better understand the relationships between geophysical and geological processes, structures, and measurements with high-precision GPS data. These are Javascript based tools. | |||
| UNAVCO |
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Kid's Earthquake Questions & Answers — kids' questions answered by scientists | |||
| Dromore National School, Republic of Ireland & USGS |
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Landers Earthquake Rupture Movie — animation of the rupture on the Landers fault | |||
| Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS |
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Large Plate Puzzle (PDF) — cut a large world map into puzzle pieces along plate boundaries, students discuss individually land then for the whole map after the class puts pieces together; simple but powerful, discussion Q/A included | |||
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Life Along the Faultline — lots of resources, information, activities and graphics concerning earthquakes in California | |||
| Exploratorium |
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Listening to Earthquakes — music and earthquakes have something in common! | |||
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Mantle Motions (PDF) — students act out various mantle motions in a game of fast thinking | |||
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NGDC - Natural Hazards Databases at NGDC — Data, images, kids quizzes, and maps from geologic hazards as well as slide shows available for order | |||
| National Geophysical Data Center |
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One-page Information Sheets on Earthquake Topics — one-page information sheets about various earthquake topics | |||
| Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) |
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Online Coloring Pages — Interactively color earthquake-related pictures | |||
| USGS |
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Online Wordsearch Puzzles — Interactive wordsearch puzzles with earthquake-related words | |||
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Pangea to Present — slide-show type presentation | |||
| Oregon State University |
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PBJ Fault (PDF) — demonstrate the different types of faults with a PBJ sandwich, and then eat it double-decker | |||
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| Univ. of Oregon |
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Plate Tectonics Activities — Games, quiz | |||
| Quia |
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Plate Tectonics Quiz — quiz | |||
| Enchanted Learning |
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Plate Tectonics Quiz — quiz | |||
| SchoolScience.co.uk |
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Potato Topo (PDF) — use a potato to make a 3-D 'topo map' and understand how it can be represented on a 1-D map, gain experience of maps and scales | |||
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Quake-Catcher Network — A collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers. | |||
| Stanford |
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Rock'n on Shakey Ground (4MB PDF) — The basics of earthquake science written especially for the elementary school level. | |||
| USGS & Green Frog News |
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Rumble Tumble — an online book with pictures, created by a kid | |||
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San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek — Interactive, 360 degree panorama of the San Andreas Fault. Aerial photos of the fault taken from a kite. | |||
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San Andreas Fault Fly-Over — virtual fly-over of the San Andreas Fault | |||
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Schoolyard Geology — Online lesson plans with photos and images. Excellent geologic activities you can do anywhere! Education standards info included. | |||
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Science Fair Project Ideas — specific projects with directions and ideas | |||
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Science of Earthquakes, The — links to various webpages with basic earthquake science info | |||
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The Richter Scale — An interactive demonstration of calculating the magnitude of an earthquake based on amplitude and S and P wave locations | |||
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics — excellent comprehensive overview of plate tectonics with excellent graphics, online USGS general interest publication | |||
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Today in Earthquake History — what happened today in earthquake history | |||
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Toilet Paper Geologic Time Scale (PDF) — use toilet paper to understand the enormous extent of geologic time compared to recent time; timeline included | |||
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Tsunami Information for Kids — Brochures, coloring books, and educational links for kids. | |||
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Uncovering the San Andreas Fault (PDF) — Earthquake Trail: What Makes the Geology of Point Reyes National Seashore So Special? | |||
| National Park Service |
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USGS and Science Education, The — webpages, links, booklets, maps, fact sheets, classroom lessons, etc. online and to order, mostly free | |||
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USGS General Interest Publications — online and to order on a variety of subjects | |||
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USGS Map Catalog: Earthquakes-Volcanoes-Landslides — Purchase maps based on earthquake, volcano, and landslide hazards | |||
| USGS Rocky Mountain Mapping Center |
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Volcano World's Activities for Plate Tectonics — slide-style coverage of the basics | |||
| Oregon State University |
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Wallace Creek Interpretive Trail Guide — Interactive online trail guide to Wallace Creek site on the San Andreas Fault | |||
| USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) |
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What on Earth is Plate Tectonics? — excellent presentation with vivid graphics | |||
| USGS & U.S. National Park Service |
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Who Dunit? and the Law of Superposition (PDF) — solve a crime, and then use those same skills to understand the Law of Superposition (older layers of the earth on bottom) with a fun WhoDunit? investigation and then use your skills to solve a geological mystery | |||
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Xpeditions: Earthquakes & Volcanoes — Compare plate tectonic maps with population density maps, and analyze what these maps imply about population and seismic hazards. | |||
| National Geographic |
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